The LifeStylers

Maybe it is the strict caste system that operates on Gor. Perhaps they find attractive the idea that people are born into a caste, and there they remain for their entire life, with no aspirations to ever be anything different, and with fierce pride for the caste of One’s birth. I will briefly explain, but I am sure if you have read this far, you know all about the Gorean Caste system.

In Gorean culture, there are several castes. I will not list them here, you can find them easily enough else where. There are high castes, and low castes, each knowing their place. And they work and live within the confines of that particular caste.

However, I do not believe that it is the caste system that has attracted the hordes to Gorean interaction via the Internet. I think, it might possibly have just a little bit to do with the fact, that on the Planet Gor, a great many of the females are slaves. There are turgid, endless, repetitive descriptions of how these slaves, (however much they may struggle when they are first enslaved), finally find the freedom to fully allow themselves to be sexual beings. These slaves love their slavery. They are petty, selfish, squabbling little vixens, but so abjectly, deliciously submissive. Desperate for their Master’s touch. In sexual agony awaiting his command to service him.

I think that might possibly be what has attracted so many to playing at being Gorean. In these times in which we live, there is so much political correctness it is exciting to escape for a while, to an environment where men are strong and masterful, and women are sweetly pleasing.
Such games do no harm.

Lifestylers however are another matter. There are many, many Gorean forums, where they discuss and debate their lifestyle at great length, but they have the unique skill of the politician in that, although they talk a lot, they actually say very little. One thing they do certainly reveal however is how, because they are Gorean Lifestylers, they are something very unique and special. The following quote may help you understand where they are coming from:

“If we are real, if we do what we say, if we live by the codes, traditions and philosophy we do, then these people have to look at themselves and what they do, and make a value judgement - and they do not like what they see. We threaten them by simply being what they claim to be: "Masters" if you will, owners of anothers life - without the safewords, time-outs, and switching that goes on as a matter of course in their hobby.”

It is apparent that megalomania is a big part of their psyche. They make frequent statements about others not having the courage to live as they do. They speak of not everybody being able to live as a Gorean.
One has to “give up” many things to be Gorean. One has to “suffer pain” to be Gorean. Here is another quote from one of them:

The word has been abused so badly by those who wish to use it without the pain of earning it that the heading "Gorean Tavern might as well read "Bdsm with a fantasy twist". You can believe that those who know or even live an actual Gorean life are appalled and dismayed.

It is the opinion, (or perhaps the pretended opinion) of these Goreans that everyone else in the world, (and especially those who have alternate lifestyles and live as Master and slave), merely have a hobby, and do not take what they are doing seriously, and do not have the Gorean’s courage and honour.
All these lesser people feel threatened by the magnificence that there is in being Gorean.